ETF comparison
AGG vs BOND
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
297 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and BOND would leave roughly 2.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
AGG is 48 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $480/yr more in fees for BOND.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with AGG vs BOND.
Top shared holdings
297 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In BOND | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.20% | 0.38% | 0.20% |
| 2 | UMBS, TBA | 0.15% | 2.54% | 0.15% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.13% | 1.32% | 0.13% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.11% | 3.39% | 0.11% |
| 5 | UMBS, TBA | 0.11% | 0.96% | 0.11% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.19% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.09% | 2.57% | 0.09% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.08% | 0.73% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Freddie Mac | 0.05% | 0.31% | 0.05% |
| 10 | Fannie Mae | 0.03% | 0.76% | 0.03% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.03% | 1.94% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Freddie Mac | 0.02% | 0.73% | 0.02% |
Only in AGG
13,085 total- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
Only in BOND
1,222 total- UMBS, TBA 5.56%
- PIMCO Mortgage-Backed Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund 4.07%
- UMBS, TBA 3.46%
- UMBS, TBA 2.73%
- UMBS, TBA 2.27%
- United States Treasury 1.93%
- Freddie Mac 1.88%
- Freddie Mac 1.76%
- UMBS, TBA 1.58%
- Government National Mortgage Association 1.21%
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- BOND vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 1.4%
- BOND vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 1.1%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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